Khazaeli Wyrsch, LLC focuses on general litigation, immigration, civil rights, criminal defense, and employment law. KW Law is located in T-REX, the largest technology incubator in St. Louis. KW Law’s goal is to provide high quality, legal representation to our clients in the St. Louis community and throughout the United States.

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Practice Areas

Litigation and Employment Law

The KW Immigration practice has handled cases across the United States. Our experience runs the gamut from defending Fortune 500 companies to providing legal services to small businesses to representing the United States government in cases involving suspected terrorists.

Our litigation practice assists clients in matters related to:

Banking and other financial institutions

Breach of contract

Civil Rights

Class action

Consumer

Employment, including restrictive covenants, discrimination, and wage and hour disputes

Government investigations

Real estate

Immigration

The KW immigration practice provides clients with a full range of immigration solutions. Our experience includes litigating hundreds of immigration cases on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, serving as a Certifying Officer for the Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification, and serving as an immigration expert in multiple settings. Unlike most corporate immigration practices, the KW practice focuses not only on employment immigration and government compliance but also on family immigration and removal proceedings.

Our immigration practice assists clients in matters related to:

Corporate compliance

Deportation (removal) hearings

Employment based immigration

Family based immigration

General business matters

Green Cards (lawful permanent residence)

Naturalization

Non-immigrant work visa

Visa procurement

Civil Rights and Criminal Defense

The KW civil rights practice concentrates on the full spectrum of civil rights issues from clients who have their rights violated in the work place to clients abused by governmental authorities. In addition, KW Law represents clients in criminal matters.

Javad M. Khazaeli

Founding Member

Javad’s practice focuses on litigation, immigration and business advice for small to medium sized businesses. Javad is the only private bar attorney in America that has served in senior immigration positions in both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor.

Javad spent nine years with the Department of Justice and then the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Law Division. While with the federal government, Javad used his expertise in immigration law to prosecute terrorists, terrorist financiers, and aliens engaged in espionage and other criminal acts. Javad worked closely with federal, state and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He is well versed in high profile, complex litigations. Javad now uses those skills to help companies and would be immigrants in their dealings with the federal government.

While in law school, Javad was selected to spend his final semester working in Washington, D.C., for Missouri Senator Jean Carnahan. Upon his graduation, Javad was accepted into the federal government’s Presidential Management Fellows program, a prestigious two-year fellowship at a government agency that provides extensive leadership and policy training.

Javad lives in the Shaw neighborhood with his wife Mollie and their daughters Nayda and Zora. Mollie works at large St. Louis based law firm. Javad and Mollie’s wedding included a tour of world’s largest brewery, Ted Drewes frozen custard, a midnight Imo’s pizza bar and Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. They currently live in a rehabbed 125-year-old home in the Shaw neighborhood.

Education

Washington School of Law - J.D. (2002); Congressional and Administrative Law ClinicUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - B.S., Biology and Psychology (1998)

Admissions and Distinctions

James R. Wyrsch

Founding Member

Jim practices in the area of commercial litigation, employment advice and litigation, and commercial transactions. Prior to founding KW Law, he spent eight years at a large, international law firm, specializing in commercial litigation of various types, including contract and complex tort claims, class and collective actions, labor and employment, and white-collar defense and investigations. Jim has also represented numerous clients pro bono, even helping to win the freedom of a man finally declared innocent after 16 years in prison.

In the beginning of his career, Jim served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. William R. Price, Jr. of the Missouri Supreme Court, held a two-year clinical graduate fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center in the Criminal Justice Clinic, and served as an assistant public defender with the Missouri State Public Defender's office in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jim has a deep appreciation for social justice, technology, history, music, and sports. He lives with his wife, son Teddy, and two dogs in the Shaw neighborhood of the City of St. Louis.

Professional Affiliations and Community Involvement

American Bar Association
ArchCity Defenders, Board Member
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
City Garden Montessori School, Member of Anti-Bias/Anti-Racism Committee
Leadership St. Louis program by FOCUS St. Louis, Participant 2015-16
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Member of Young Friends Steering Committee

Selected Publications and Press

Admissions and Distinctions

Missouri (2001)
District of Columbia (2002)
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuit
United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, and Central and Southern Districts of Illinois
Award from the Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc. (2010)
Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers (2012-2014)
Missouri Lawyers Weekly Up & Coming Lawyers (2011)

Annie Rice

Associate

Annie’s practice focuses on immigration, her primary area of practice during and since law school. Annie has represented clients in immigration matters for everything from spousal petitions and permanent resident applications, to H1B petitions, and removal defense.

Annie decided to attend the University of Cincinnati College of Law after working as an admissions counselor for international students and learning the ins and outs of student visas, work and travel. She participated in the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights as a part of the Human Rights Quarterly, as well as through a clerkship at the High Court of Botswana in 2011. She began working for an immigration law firm during her second year of law school, and continued her immigration law practice once she relocated to St. Louis after graduation.

Annie is the 8th Ward Democratic Committeewoman, and is the Committeewoman representing the MO 5th Senate District to the Missouri Democratic Party. She is on the Board of Directors at the MICA Project, and is a Senior Immigration Consultant for Road to Status. She lives in South City with Abbie, her toy poodle that is often in the KW Law office or upstairs playing with the other T-Rex dogs.

Education

Legal background

Of Counsel, The Fleischer Law Firm (2014-2015)Student Law Clerk, The Fleischer Law Firm (2011 – 2013)

Professional Affiliations and Community Involvement

Road to Status Women Lawyers Association The Migrant and Immigrant Community Action (MICA) Project, Board Member

Admissions and Distinctions

Missouri (2013)

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